What is "dicker"

Usage examples of "dicker".

Young Dake Lorin who had been his assistant, his husky right arm during the long year of cautious dickering.

The Smithcraft marksman continually stroked the finely tanned wherhide as he dickered, almost as if he hoped to find some flaw in the hide so he could argue a further reduction.

Here, housed in haphazardly misarranged booths and stalls, temple money changers dickered rates of exchange with worshipers to convert various currencies into Tyrian shekels -- the only currency acceptable for temple offerings -- and nearby traders offered pigeons, doves, lambs, rams, and bulls for purchase as sacrifices.

There, in a squalid doorway apart from the more wholesome foot-traffic, as Millie watched from concealment behind a shuttered kiosk, Kafka approached two gaudy women of obvious ill repute, leaving, after a slight dickering, with both of the overpainted floozies, plainly headed toward the entrance of a nearby fleabag hotel.

I made landings on Tharn and Grollor and Mellise and Stree and dickered with the aborigines and laid the foundations of our Eastern Circuit trade.

Great-uncle Dicker advised me once in a kind of Arkie ode to optimism, go ahead and say it.

I could have it set right in our back yard, clost to the horse barn, why I might possibly try to make a dicker with you for it.

I can see that the jewelry Unser Fritz is looking at consists of a necklace of emeralds and diamonds, with a centerpiece the size of the home plate, and some eardrops, and bracelets, and clips of same, and as I approach the scene I hear Unser Fritz ask how much for the lot as if he is dickering for a basket of fish.

Realizing that the issue would be oversubscribed on the spot, they began to dicker among themselves.

Apparently, the rads had designs to keep Renna busy while they sheltered him and dickered with the Reigning Council.

If they like it there, we can begin dickering with the Synesis and whoever else might be concerned.

Postboys and bearers and drivers dickered with prospective customers over fares to the next post station.

Pajunggs were dickering with several Companies for satellites and emission sniffers, hoping to cut into the hordes of smugglers hitting the surface of Avosing, drawn like flies by the sweetamber and the drugs distilled by the foresters from local plants, but they wanted the Avosingers to pay for the scanners.

The first senn't the crowd had been relatively clean of druggers and drunks, but as day blended into day that was changing, helped along by Itekkillykx peddling hardbrews of every complexion and Oldieppykx dickering over cachets of every brainscrambler Rallen produced.

Its piers bustled, men loading, unloading, fetching, bearing off, repairing, outfitting, dickering, arguing, chaffering, a tumble and chaos that somehow got its jobs done.